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POSTAL ADVENTURES: A TALE OF LETTER WRITING LOSS & TRIUMPH
Letter Writing What is it that lures us into the endangered art of letter writing? Putting pen to paper is not in fashion anymore, and it can be discouraging to take a chance by sending special trinkets or secret sentiments through the post with no way of knowing if it will survive. Not knowing if

PENPALS FROM THE PAST & REUNIONS
Way back when, I was about 11 years old and I remember standing at the school gate and one of the mothers from the school was taking names of children who wanted penpals. For the next few years I exchanged letters with Cyris. She was about the same age as myself and from the Philippines.

2017 THE YEAR TO START PUTTING PEN TO PAPER
A Mammoth But Lovely Task Last year, my siblings and I had the mammoth task of emptying my parents house. My father had lived in the same home, almost his entire life. He bought the house from his father and the attic still had boxes of his handwritten bank statements. Dad was a collector (hoarder)

PROPER CHILDHOOD SWEETHEARTS & HOW POST PLAYED IT’S PART
In this Letter Love article Heather Martin tells us how she feels the lack of social media and the presence of diaries and the slow art of letter writing is the key to her Childhood Sweetheart and her being together since they met at age 11. Proper Sweethearts My husband and I have lived less

A POSTCARD TO HEAVEN
I love words. I love writing. Don’t do it enough and that is why I signed up to Proper Post. So it gives me a reason to make someone glad with words. Words are magical like that. I used cards last week to congratulate my friend on getting a new job and also to tell